US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on Jan. 20 for "Articulation assemblies for surgical instruments" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,574, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Articulation assemblies for surgical instruments" was invented by Tibor Hites (San Lorenzo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a surgical instrument, such as a tissue sealing instrument, with an elongate shaft and an end effector movably coupled to the shaft with a joint or wrist assembly. The wrist assembly includes a first outer link, a second outer link, and an inner link. The first outer link is connected to the elongated shaft and movably coupled to the second outer link by the inner link. The inner...